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Action Quotes
"A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action."
175
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
154
"Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively."
136
"Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions."
134
"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."
132
"All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are."
127
"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again."
126
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
123
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
121
"There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin."
121
"Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity."
114
"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism."
113
"To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness."
113
"I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security."
109
"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
107
"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."
106
"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
104
"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
102
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
102
"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
85
"When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action."
85
"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil."
83
"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."
83
"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him."
83
"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."
72
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
70
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
70
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."
63
"Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions."
63
"I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia."
56
"We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do."
55
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
51
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